Articles related to "Deviance"



"You're one of THOSE, I can tell!!!" WHAT IS DEVIANCE?
Are you deviant? What if I call you deviant? Does it matter? Read more to find out.
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Tribal Identity and Loss of Self
The loss of a tribal identity for modern people has resulted in a loss of personal identity, loss of stability and sense of well-being that can be directly contributable to all our modern neurosis.
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RULES OF RELIGION
Regardless of the specifics, there are general rules of accepted religions. In this article find out what they are!
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Bayard Rustin and Gay Rights
Bayard Rustin was one of Martin Luther King's top advisors, but his existence is unknown to the greater US community because of his sexual orientation.
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WHAT IF THE UNITED STATES HAD NO RELIGION???
The notion that there is separation of Church and State is widely held in American culture, it shapes our beliefs. But is it accurate? And how does this effect how we perceive deviance?
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Alphabetical Index
Personality Disorders Topic alphabetical index to the articles and blogs - click on the links!
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Avoidant Personality
People suffering from the Avoidant Personality Disorder feel inadequate, unworthy, inferior, and lacking in self-confidence.
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Axes of Disorders
The DSM uses five axes to analyze, classify, and describe these data. The patient (or subject) presents himself to a mental health diagnostician, is evaluated, tests are
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Body Language
In itself, body language cannot and should not be used as a diagnostic tool. But, in conjunction with psychiatric interviews and psychological tests, it can provide an ad
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Borderline Personality
The main dynamic in the Borderline Personality Disorder is abandonment anxiety.
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Brain and Personality
The brain-injured may acquire traits and behaviors typical of certain personality disorders.
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Cluster B Disorders
Cluster B (the Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic Cluster) is comprised of the Antisocial, Borderline, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders.
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Codependence
There is great confusion regarding the terms co-dependent, counter-dependent, and dependent.
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Common PD Features
Most personality disorders share a set of symptoms (as reported by the patient) and signs (as observed by the mental health practitioner).
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Compulsive Personality
Obsessive-Compulsives are constantly drawing up and dreaming up lists, rules, orders, rituals, and organizational schemes.
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Conduct Disorder
Many underage muggers, extortionists, purse-snatchers, rapists, robbers, shoplifters, burglars, arsonists, vandals, and animal torturers have Conduct Disorder.
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Dependent Personality
Dependents never disagree with meaningful others or criticizes them. They are afraid to lose their support and emotional nurturance.
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Depressive Personality
The Depressive has pervasive and continuous depressive cognitions (thoughts) and behaviors.
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Eating Disorders and Personality
A whopping 40% of Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa patients have co-morbid personality disorders (mostly Cluster B - Narcissistic, Histrionic, Antisocial, Borderline).
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Eating Disorders and Personality
A whopping 40% of Anorexia Nervosa/Bulimia Nervosa patients have co-morbid personality disorders (mostly Cluster B - Narcissistic, Histrionic, Antisocial, Borderline).
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Eclectic Psychotherapy
Mental health practitioners freely borrow tools and techniques from a myriad therapeutic systems.
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Empathy
Narcissists and psychopaths lack empathy. It is safe to say that the same applies to patients with other personality disorders, notably the Schizoid, Paranoid, Borderline
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Hateful Patient
Therapists, psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists report negative feelings towards patients with personality disorders.
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Histrionic PD
Most patients with the Histrionic Personality Disorder are women. This immediately raises the question: Is this a real mental health disorder or a culture-bound syndrome
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Insane Narcissist
The narcissist suffers from uncontrollable rage and grandiose fantasies. Most narcissists are also mildly obsessive-compulsive. Yet, all narcissists should be held accoun
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Insanity Defense
But if personality disorders are not objective clinical entities - what should we make of the insanity defense (NGRI- Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity)?
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Masochistic Personality
The masochist has been taught from an early age to hate herself and consider herself unworthy of love and worthless as a person.
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Misdiagnosing Anxiety
Patients with personality disorders are often anxious. Narcissists, for instance, are preoccupied with the need to secure social approval or attention (Narcissistic Suppl
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Misdiagnosing Asperger
Asperger's Disorder is often misdiagnosed as a cluster B personality disorder, most often as the Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD).
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Misdiagnosing Bipolar
The Bipolar Disorder got its name because the mania is followed by - usually protracted - depressive attacks. A similar pattern of mood shifts and dysphorias occurs in ma
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Narcissism Therapy
The narcissist sends a message to his psychotherapist: there is nothing you can teach me, I am as intelligent as you are.
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Narcissist vs. Psychopath
We all heard the terms "psychopath" or "sociopath". It is hard to distinguish narcissists from psychopaths.
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Negativistic Personality
Some people are perennial pessimists and have "negative energy" and negativistic attitudes.
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NOS Personality
The NOS diagnosis is a laundry list of all personality-related dysfunctions, signs, symptoms, and complaints that do not fit a specific personality disorder.
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Npd - Prevalence, Comorbidity
According to the DSM IV-TR, Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is diagnosed in between 2% and 16% of the population in clinical settings (between 0.5-1% of the gener
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NPD Clinical Features
Perhaps the most immediately evident trait of patients with Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is their vulnerability to criticism and disagreement.
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Npd Diagnostic Criteria
The Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is not a new psychological construct. In previous centuries it was called "egotism" or "megalomania". It is an extreme form of
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Oppositional Disorder
Let us hope that the "scholars" of the DSM V Committee have the good sense to remove this blatant tool of social control from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual.
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Paranoid Personality
The paranoid's world is hostile, arbitrary, malicious, and unpredictable.
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Personality Psychotherapy
Most therapists now adhere to three modern methods: Brief Therapies, the Common Factors approach, and Eclectic techniques.
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Psychosis and Delusions
Psychotic microepisodes are common in certain personality disorders, most notably the Borderline and Schizotypal.
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Sadistic Personality
The Sadistic Personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of gratuitous cruelty, aggression, and demeaning behaviors.
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Schizoid Personality
Schizoids enjoy nothing and seemingly never experience pleasure.
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Schizotypal Personality
Do you believe in UFOs and alien abductions? You may be suffering from the Schizotypal Personality Disorder.
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Sexual Behavior
The sexuality of patients with personality disorders is thwarted and stunted.
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Syphilitic Narcissist
Syphilis in its tertiary (brain consuming) phase produces symptoms that are easily misdiagnosed as Bipolar Disorder comorbid with Personality Disorders.
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The Psychopath Antisocial
The psychopath has antisocial traits coupled with and enhanced by callousness, ruthlessness, extreme lack of empathy, deficient impulse control, deceitfulness,
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Victim Reactions
Malignant optimists see signs of hope in every fluctuation, read meanings and patterns into every random occurrence, utterance, or slip.
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What is Personality?
Our personality is who we truly are, that which makes us unique, our vertiable charcater, traits, qualities, and shortcomings.
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Abuse By Proxy
Abusers often use other people to do their dirty work for them. These - sometimes unwitting - accomplices belong to three groups.
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